Gender a priority in the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Project

Gender is a key consideration of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Project, which works to help 14 Pacific island countries build resilience to climate change with on the ground projects and activities.
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) is an implementing partner of this project which is funded by the Global Environment Facility and the Australian Government with the United Nations Development Programme as the executing agency.
The project focuses on three key areas; food production and food security, coastal management capacity and water resource management. The 14 countries - Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu and Vanuatu - are carrying out activities that address one of these key areas.
When designing national adaptation activities, gender-sensitive criteria and indicators are one of the key sets of information that allow the project to measure impacts or benefits of the activities at national and community levels.
"The national PACC coordinators have completed gender training which helps given them a broader understanding of the concept and how it can be applied to their work on the project," said Peniamina Leavai, the PACC Project Officer.
"We've completed our work plans for 2013 and all of them have identified how they will be including gender criteria and gender sensitive indicators; now it's a matter of them carrying these out."
Some of the work already underway in 2013 will document how the concerns of all community groups were addressed in designing and implementing the project to help ensure the activities to help people adapt to climate change are successful.
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